I’m off to Vancouver in a couple of days for the Film Festival (here’s my proposed schedule) and I’ll be writing about what I see there over at Seattle Screen Scene. I’ll have an index over here of my coverage as well of course.

I’ve been watching fewer movies this year, mostly because as my kids get older it’s become easier to read books. I’ve read more this year than the past five years, since kid #1 was born) put together. Here’s a ranked list of what I’ve read (and finished) so far this year:

I’ll be back at the Vancouver International Film Festival this year, and we’re planning extensive coverage over at Seattle Screen Scene. This year’s lineup looks like it might be the best since 2012, packed with promising European titles, the best selection of Asian films on the North American festival circuit and a renewed emphasis on cutting-edge Canadian cinema. All of my reviews this year are going to be over at SSS, but I’ll have an additional index of them over here, and I figured this would be a more appropriate home for my proposed schedule.

These are the films I’m hoping to see. Showings that conflict with each other are listed without a space in-between, with the film I’m leaning toward attending listed first.

It is time once again for a Top 100 Films of All-Time list. As I’ve done for the last few years, the first ten spots on the list comprise a hypothetical Sight & Sound-style ballot. We had an on-going project related to this on The George Sanders Show, that will now be based at Seattle Screen Scene. This top ten is presented here in chronological order. The remaining 90 films were randomly selected from a consideration set of 867 films, which excluded films that made my Top Tens in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

1. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)

2. Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)

3. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)

4. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)

5. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

6. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)

7. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)

8. Running on Karma (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2003)

9. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

10. Linda Linda Linda (Nouhiro Yamashita, 2005)

11. The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971)

12. Murmur of the Hearts (Sylvia Chang, 2015)

13. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)

14. Nomad (Patrick Tam, 1982)

15. Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller, 1957)

16. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)

17. The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Paul Wegener & Carl Boese, 1920)

18. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)

19. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung, 1984)

20. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

21. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)

22. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph, 1984)

23. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)

24. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)

25. The Heroic Ones (Chang Cheh, 1970)

26. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)

27. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975)

28. Hearts of the World (DW Griffith, 1918)

29. Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012)

30. There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1955)

31. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)

32. Written By (Wai Ka-fai, 2009)

33. Big Night (Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci, 1996)

34. The Pan-American Exposition by Night (Edwin S. Porter, 1901)

35. Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973)

36. Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney, 1953)

37. Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr, 2015)

38. Come Drink with Me (King Hu, 1966)

39. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)

40. City Girl (FW Murnau, 1930)

41. Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)

42. Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz, 2012)

43. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)

44. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

45. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

46. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)

47. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)

48. Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)

49. Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)

50. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)

51. Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006)

52. Romance Joe (Lee Kwangkuk, 2011)

53. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)

54. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)

55. City on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987)

56. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)

57. 24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)

58. Prospero’s Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)

59. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)

60. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)

61. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis, 2007)